Device for clamping together show-case or other glass.



PATENTED NOV. 1, 1904.

W. E. GOULD.

DEVIGETOR GLAMPING TOGETHER SHOW CASE OR OTHER GLASS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14. 1904.

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' ATTORNEYS No. 773,731. Patented November 1, 1904:.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErc IVALTER E. GOULD, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF TWO-THIRDS TO HERBERT M. KIPP AND EDIVARD FROHLIOH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

DEVICE FOR CLAMPING TOGETHER SHOW-CASE OR OTHER GLASS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,731, dated November 1, 1904..

Application filed January 14, 1904:. Serial No. 188,960. (No model.)

T whom it y 0071007771! a slot in said plate and being provided with Be it known that I, WALTER E. GOULD, a flaring or outwardly-bent portions 0 6, each citizen of the United States, residing at Deof which has a return-bend e e. troit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, 6 denotes solder employed to secure the 5 have invented a certain new and useful Imends of the ribbon to the outer corner-clamp, provement in Devices for Clamping Together though the same is not absolutely necessary, Show-Case or other Glass; and I declare the as it is found in practice that the peculiar following to be a full, clear, and exact descripform and the return-bend of the ribbon setion of the invention, such as will enable others cures the same without the assistance of any I skilled in the art to which it pertains to make other agency.

and use the same, reference being had to the F is a cross-pin around which the ribbon accompanying drawings, which form a part of steel E is looped. This cross-pin is set in of this specification. the recesses d formed in the sleeve D.

My invention relates to an improvement in G is a nut engaging the sleeveD and bear- 5 devices employed for clamping lights of glass ing on the angle-plate O.

together in the manufacture of show-cases, The method of applying the clamps will be windows, &c., where it is desired to have the readily understood. The glass is first pre- 5 glass abut without employing sash or frames. pared at such points as it is desired to attach In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective the clamping device by grinding an angular 20 view of the clamp in position. Fig. 2 is a secslot 0 in the edge of one of the lights for the tion through one portion of the clamp, showribbon connecting the corner-plates. The ing the other parts in elevation. Fig. 3 is a outer clamp being set in position, with the sectional view on line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. ribbon E projecting through the slot in the Iis an elevation from the inside with the clamp glass, the inner clamp with its connecting 5 in position. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of parts are then placed in position and the ribthe parts. bon looped around the pin, supported by the I The object of my invention is to provide a sleeve D. The nut G is thenscrewed down simple and practical corner-clamp to secure until sufficient tension is put on the clamping lights of glass together, which will avoid the device to hold the glass firmly bound.

3 necessity of drilling holes through the glass By having the lugs 0 enter the keyway profor the passage of bolts, as is common in de vided in the adjustable sleeve D any desired vices of this character. tension can be applied by means of the nut Referring to the letters of reference shown G without the possibility of twisting the meon the drawings, A and A represent abutting tallic ribbon or band E. 35 glass plates. Having thus described my invention,what I B is an outer angle-plate composing part claim isp of the clamp, being recessed at b to receive 1. In an article of the class described, an. 5 the rubber cushion or packing b. outer angle-plate recessed on the inside, a rub- O is an inner angle-plate, also recessed to ber packing set in said recess, an inner angle- 4 receive a rubber cushion or packing c and, iron recessed to receive a packing, a rubber provided with a central opening O. packing set in said recess, a metallic ribbon D is an annular screw-threaded sleeveparsecured to the outer angle-iron and to an ad- 9 tially housed within the central opening of justab'le screw-threaded portion on the inside the plate O and provided with a keyway cl and a nut engaging said screw-threaded por- 45 to receive a projecting lug 0, preferably cast tion, and bearing on the inner angleiron, subintegral with the angle-plate O. stantially as described.

E is a ribbon of steel or other suitable metal 2. In an article of the class described, an engaging the outer angle-plate Bby entering outer angle-iron, an inner angle-iron, a metallic ribbon secured to the outer angle-iron and to a screw-threaded sleeve housed partially Within an opening in the inner angleiron, the screW-tlu'eaded sleeve,and a nut engaging said sleeve and bearing on the inner angle-iron to force the angle-irons toward each other to grip the glass, substantially as described.

3. In an article of the class described, an outer angle-iron having an opening at its corner to receive the ends of a metallic ribbon, an inner angle-iron, an adjustable sleeve, a cross-pin supported by the Walls of said sleeve, a nut engaging said sleeve and bearing on the inner an gle-iron, arnetallic band looped around said cross-pin and having its ends, after passing through the opening in the angle-iron, provided With the flaring portion a e and return-bend e a substantially as described.

WALTER E. GOULD.

WVitnesses:

S. E. THOMAS, CHAS. TIMM. 

